Poet Affinities
Every poet has a thematic centre of gravity averaged from their critiqued poems. Here we use that to find the poets whose work rhymes with a given writer — often in surprising ways.
Poets whose work rhymes most with Charles Harding Firth
Francis James Child
1 February 1825–11 September 1896 (~71)
75% affinity
Shared: helped
bio 75%
Sir Samuel Ferguson
10 March 1810–9 August 1886 (~76)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Henry Newbolt
6 June 1862–19 April 1938 (~76)
73% affinity
Shared: clifton college
bio 73%
William Oldys
14 July 1696–15 April 1761 (~65)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Sir Richard Fanshawe
12 June 1608–June 1666 (~58)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Robert Fergusson
5 September 1750–16 October 1774 (~24)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Sam Walter Foss
19 June 1858–26 February 1911 (~53)
71% affinity
bio 71%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
71% affinity
bio 71%
Thomas Babington Macaulay
25 October 1800–28 December 1859 (~59)
71% affinity
Shared: helped
bio 71%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
71% affinity
bio 71%
Giles Farnaby
c. 1563–November 1640 (~77)
71% affinity
Shared: popular
bio 71%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
71% affinity
bio 71%